This is an analysis of the poem Coucy that begins with:
The rooks aclamor when one enters here
Startle the empty towers far overhead; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcXbdebde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0110011101 10010101101 1101010101 1111010101 0111011111 1011011101 01110100001 1101111100 0101001101 11010101001 111001101 1111100101 1001110011 01010111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 624
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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